MPD is investigating a shooting involving two of their officers that left one man dead.
Police tell 9NEWS NOW it all began around 12:30am, when an off duty officer was on his way home and noticed a man firing shots into a courtyard at 17th Street & Benning Road NE.
The off duty officer approached the suspect announced that he was a police officer, and exchanged gunfire.
The suspect then jumped into a green and white vehicle and fled the scene toward a laundromat near 1342 Florida Ave NE.
An on duty officer encountered the suspects as they got back on Benning Road and exchanged gunfire with the suspect while he was trying to flee the scene.
A vehicle matching the description of the suspect vehicle showed up at a firehouse in the 1100 block of Morse Street NE and left a man suffering from gunshots in the driveway then fled. [Frozen Tropics notes that there isn't a fire station on that block, so it must have been the station on Florida Avenue. There's also some confusion over whether the initial intersection was 17th and Benning or 17th and Bladensburg.]
The man was taken to a local hospital were he was pronounced dead a short time later.
D.C. Police chief Cathy Lanier says the two officers involved were not injured.
The man has not been identified and police are looking for the driver of the car who left the man at the firehouse.
If you have any information about this case, please call MPD at 202-727-9099.
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